Here to pick your brains.

[Carnivore]

Shocking isn't it. Ok here goes nothing so be gentle it is my first time.

I haven't built a system in over 7 years. The system I am on. P4, abit mobo, 9800pro (died 3 weeks ago) etc. Was the hot ticket but now won't play unreal hardly. So I decided to just buy a built system. Well that is expensive so I have taken a crash course in hard ware and this is what I have come up with other then a Mobo.

i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (yes I want this)
Corsair 650D case (yep want this too)
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W (input if any please)
CORSAIR dominator memory 8GB (again input if any please)
EVGA SuperClocked 015-P3-1582-TR GeForce GTX 580 (pretty firm on this one but still any input)
WD VelociRaptor 300GB 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s (ya another pretty firm)

if not over budget looking to add a SSD, found this one but still in the dark about a quality manufacturer of these...

Corsair Force Series 3 CSSD-F120GB3A-BK 2.5" 120GB SATA III

Corsair seems to be the goto in quality from what I have read.

Ok here is my main dilemma, a mother board. Was looking at the gigabit snipper2 but thinking it might be over the top. In my day on board sound was a ram hog but seems to be different now. Not much room for extra cards these days so on board sound looked good with the bigfoot NIC.

SSD is not a necessity now but want it for expandability later along with SSI if necessary as games get more and more GPU hogs. 2 580s now seems like over kill so looking to the future.

My habits are online games but have been limited to halo, unreal, an lower system requirement games. Looking at COD and the more modern games once I get a system that can run them. Was playing Starcraft 2 off line (lowest settings) but once the 9800 died finding a quality 8X agp wasn't in the cards.

Trying to keep this all under 2k and the less the better. So far about 1350 but that will change with a quality mobo.

Ok so now that I have turned a question into a book any thoughts are and will be greatly appreciated.

OOPS forgot to add I am running a 30" samsung and only want to run one monitor. More then that makes my head spin.

[Khalil]

The i7-2600K is a waste of money for what you want to do. I would stick to the 2500K and save $100.

I don't like raptor hard drives, the failure rate is high on them in my experience. A WD Black with an Intel SSD for caching will do the job better and will be far more reliable.

Here is the mainboard I like best in the Intel Z68 and it fits your budget Newegg.com - ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

[glc]

Also, use Vengeance ram, not Dominator.

If you are possibly planning on two 580's you need a much bigger PSU. The 750 is fine for just one. The EVGA -AR boards are the ones with lifetime warranty.

The Deluxe that Khalil recommended is an excellent board, but the P8Z68-V or P8Z68-V Pro would also do the job quite well, the only real differences are features.

The most reliable SATA III SSD's are the Intel 510's. I'd recommend one of those along with a WD Black or Hitachi 7K3000 data drive. That would be even better than the SSD caching.

[Carnivore]

Very cool guys thank you. Money saved is money earned....or at least applied to another cool gadget down the road. Again thank you.